He goes on to save Discworld a number of times, even helping to create organic life on a desolate other planet named Roundworld. Rincewind realizing that his fate is to embark on the journey whether or not he protests, reflects on the irony of destiny. In one such story, The Last Hero, Rincewind protests a petition for him to join an expedition set on exploring what lies outside the edge of Discworld. The series’ first true protagonist, Rincewind is an antihero figure, desiring nothing of fame or fortune, but nevertheless, falling into situations in which he ends up taking heroic actions or becoming subject to extreme danger. One of Discworld’s main story arcs examines Rincewind, a wizard whose lackadaisical wandering results in a tendency to confront strange challenges in life. The series is considered an important contribution to modern humorous writing. Though each of Discworld’s forty-one installments is an independent novel, they share a handful of story arcs, often referencing them only obliquely. They deploy a blend of themes spanning folklore, mythology, fable, and fairy tale, examining a number of social and political issues in contemporary Western life. Lovecraft, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and J.R.R.
The series parodies and borrows from a number of canonical science fiction, speculative fiction, modern, and even pre-modern authors, most notably H.P. Released in a multitude of installments between 19, it takes place on the fictional “Discworld,” a flat planet balanced atop the backs of four planet-sized elephants, who collectively stand atop a cosmic turtle. Discworld is a series in the genre of comic fantasy by British author Terry Pratchett.
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